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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FTP Install: Locked at dial: Help? Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 18:05:51 -0700 Organization: Erol's Internet Service Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32263E6F.40AE@www.play-hookey.com> References: <321BC73F.1978@top.monad.net> <Pine.SUN.3.93-heb-2.07.960828005010.23353B-100000@actcom.co.il> <3224E6AA.656E@top.monad.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) James Gray wrote: > > That's the logical conclusion, I know, and I tried switching ports > (even physically) with no success. It just doesn't seem to be > initializing properly. I've got a USR Sportster PnP in a Dell Pentium > system. I've never encountered a problem with the Sportster in the 6 > mos. of its use. > > Is there anything else I can do? Different driver system? Anything? > > James I'll bet my traditional 6 cookies and a doughnut that your problem is the PnP feature. The concept of PnP is that the OS sorts out where it wantas to assign things. However, FreeBSD doesn't do that; it wants to be told exactly where your peripherals are addressed. You'll need to disable PnP on that card. If you can preset the card to the port and IRQ your other OS likes to use it at, it should still work OK. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |